fpons - any comment on this?
David Walser wrote:
> --- David Walser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> --- Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>> > David Walser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > > I'm writing, because if the location [rpmdrake is]
>> downloading
>> > from
>> > > is the same as the proxy, it should not use the
>> > proxy,
>> > > as that sometimes plain doesn't work.
>> >
>> > that's curl's job I suppose..
>>
>> No. Plus you'd have to do it upstream in wget too.
>> Anyway, Unix tools in general let you do stupid
>> things
>> if you really want, including downloading from a
>> host
>> through a proxy on that host, even if that doesn't
>> work. With rpmdrake though, it's kind of doing a
>> stupid thing for you w/out you explicitly asking it
>> to, as it's picking up that http_proxy variable.
>> rpmdrake should check for this.
>
> Ok, we're both wrong. It's not curl or rpmdrake's job
> to check for this, it's urpmi's.
>
> Imagine this scenario, you've got a proxy configured,
> which is also the location of one of your urpmi
> sources, but you have sources from other servers too.
> You run a urpmi command to install some packages, some
> which will come from each place. If you don't do
> http_proxy="" first, the ones from that server won't
> work, but if you do, the ones from the other servers
> won't use the proxy.
>
> So if urpmi is installing something from the same host
> as the proxy, it shouldn't use the proxy for that package.
